Chief Quality Data Officer

Overview

The Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation invites applications for the Chief Quality Data Officer role. The position is a strategic analytics leadership role, focused on improving patient care quality through advanced analytics while optimizing revenue through quality-based payment programs. This role identifies quality improvement opportunities by analyzing both clinical care delivery and administrative data, ensuring BMHCC receives appropriate recognition for the high-quality care provided.

The candidate must have deep analytical expertise and healthcare domain knowledge to predict performance in quality rating methodologies, identify improvement opportunities, and translate complex data into actionable insights for leadership and clinical teams. The ideal candidate is a data storyteller who can extract meaningful patterns from complex healthcare data sets, develop predictive models for quality outcomes, and effectively communicate findings to drive organizational change.

The individual must craft compelling narratives that make complex analytics accessible and actionable for diverse stakeholders across the organization. The Chief Quality Data Officer will work collaboratively across multiple departments—including quality, coding, CDI, finance, and IT—to integrate data sources, create analytics frameworks, and implement data-driven strategies that maximize BMHCC's performance in public quality rating programs and value-based payment models. The role also requires adept use of large data sets to find opportunities for clinical quality optimization, testing different courses of action, and developing algorithms to monitor performance, serving as a bridge between technical and clinical domains to help BMHCC capture earned revenue by getting full credit for the quality care already being delivered.

• Quality Performance Improvement Leadership
• Analytics and Modeling
• Data Visualization and Communication
• Collaboration and Team Development
• Process Improvement

Technical

Skills:

Proficiency with data analysis platforms, ability to work with large complex datasets, experience with programming languages, and SQL query development. Experience with healthcare information systems. Demonstrated ability to use programming languages (SAS, R, Python) to manipulate datasets, conduct what-if scenarios, and implement predictive models based on quality program methodologies. Proficiency with one data analysis platform. Experience with SAS, R, or Python;

advanced SQL skills; experience with Epic systems.

Healthcare Knowledge: Understanding of healthcare quality measures, terminology (including DRGs, ICD-10 codes, HCCs), clinical documentation requirements, and public reporting methodologies. Basic understanding and comprehensive knowledge.

Data Storytelling: Ability to communicate complex data insights to diverse audiences in a clear, compelling, and actionable manner. Experience developing executive-level presentations and strategic recommendations based on data analysis. Demonstrated ability with advanced skills and a proven track record.

Critical Thinking: Ability to identify patterns and insights in complex data, approach problems from multiple perspectives, and develop innovative analytical solutions. Demonstrated ability with advanced skills and proven examples.

Personal Characteristics: Curiosity, adaptability to new information and methodologies, tenacity, and resilience when working through complex analytical challenges. Demonstrated traits and a proven track record of applying these traits to drive organizational change.

Leadership

Skills:

Ability to mentor others, lead cross‑functional initiatives, and potentially build and supervise a team of analysts as the program grows. Basic leadership skills and proven experience building and developing teams.

Healthcare Analytics

Experience:

Professional experience analyzing healthcare data to identify quality improvement opportunities and revenue optimization strategies. Experience working with quality metrics, public reporting programs (CMS Stars, Leapfrog, Vizient, US News), and value-based payment programs (HVBP, HRRP,…